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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

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Columbia Seminary prepares students for ministry both academically and practically. Students are challenged to think deeply and critically while at the same time actively participating in community and ministry.

Dr. Brennan W. Breed

Assistant Professor of Old Testament; Director of QEP

Dr. Breed’s research focuses on the reception history of the Bible, which traces the divergent uses and understandings of biblical texts from their ancient contexts of production to the present day. His other interests include Hebrew poetry, biblical theology, textual criticism, ancient and medieval visual art, and philosophy.

Education:

PhD, Emory University

MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary

BA, University of Virginia

Denomination: Episcopal

Publications

Ecclesiastes: Commentary and Reception History. Under contract with Eerdmans for the Illuminations biblical commentary series. Coauthoring with C. Davis Hankins. Projected date of completion: Fall, 2017, book

“Reception History and the Bible: Theory and Practice.” Biblical Reception 1, November, 2012, book

“What Kind of World is Possible?: Biblical Apocalyptic Literature and Visual Art,” in J. Schedtler and K. Murphy, eds., Apocalypses in Contexts: Apocalyptic Current throughout History (Fortress Press), 2016, article

“Reading Job as a Kierkegaardian Text: The Incarnation of Indirect Communication,” in the peer-review journal Biblical Interpretation, 2016, article

"What Can a text Do?: Reception History as an Ethology of the Bible Text" in Reception History and Biblical Studies: Theory and Practice (ed. E. England and W.J. Lyons), 2015, article

"A Divided Tongue: The Moral Taste Buds of the Book of Daniel" in Journal for Study of the Old Testament, 2015, article

"Are There Really Three Worlds of the Text" A Proposal for Biblical Studies" @thispoint. February, 2014, article

“Reception of the Psalms: The Example of Psalm 91,” The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, edited by William Brown. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, article

“The Reception of the Book of Daniel,” article to be included in Daniel, Carol A. Newsom, Old Testament Library Commentary Series, Westminster John Knox. Projected date of completion: Fall, 2012, article

“Adah,” “Amaltheia,” “Amram,” “Belt,” “Behemoth,” and “Fool.” In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Edited by Hans-Joseph Klauck et. al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009-2012, article

“Job, Book of.” In The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Coauthored with C. Davis Hankins., 2011, article